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  • ladymuck
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    Originally posted by eek View Post

    Is the local authority work interesting?

    Remember the real rule is how does this contract help me get the next one...
    Potentially, yes. I like my current client, they are a long standing repeat customer too, but the programme is just dull as dish water.

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  • eek
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    Originally posted by ladymuck View Post
    Choces, choices. Potential new client, same rate as current but local authority with minimal flexibility. Existing client renewal offer, ridiculously good flexibility but I am a bit bored and stagnating. Dodgy Swiss client might send over an extension when they get around to it but easy to fit in anyway.
    Is the local authority work interesting?

    Remember the real rule is how does this contract help me get the next one...

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  • ladymuck
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    Choces, choices. Potential new client, same rate as current but local authority with minimal flexibility. Existing client renewal offer, ridiculously good flexibility but I am a bit bored and stagnating. Dodgy Swiss client might send over an extension when they get around to it but easy to fit in anyway.

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  • NickFitz
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    Tea has been a very nice roast beef dinner

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  • NickFitz
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    I ended up overrunning because I wanted to make sure I’d documented some stuff for the other dev, but I am now done with ClientGov work for 2026!

    I thought of doing the shopping, but I think I’ll leave it until tomorrow as I’ve got dinner to cook

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  • Pondlife
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    Afternoon all,

    Wind 10 kt from the South/Southeast
    Temperature 12°C
    Humidity 82%
    Pressure 1014 hPa
    Visibility 10 km or more
    Scattered clouds at a height of 2600 ft
    Broken clouds at a height of 3100 ft
    Broken clouds at a height of 4000 ft

    Sooo many calls today, largely pointless but meant today's soup was consumed whilst muted in teams meetings.

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  • ladymuck
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    Morning all

    Blue sky. Faint wisps lingering here and there. Currently 12 degrees ('feels like' 10) and that's the high for the day. Barometer up to 1019 mBar.

    Sunrise 07:57; Sunset 15:52 GMT

    This morning I had a 'sales meeting' with a potential client. Not sure I want the job but it was nice of an ex-client manager to think of me and give me first dibs.

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  • WTFH
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    Morning all
    overcast and dry earlier on our walk, now a light drizzle.
    Wifi crashed last night and was still down this morning. After a bit of investigating, I discovered the issue was the Devolo Mesh. Somehow it was no longer running on 192.168.x.x but had switched to 169.1.x.x. Give that Devolo is the domain controller, when it screws up, anything on a fixed IP crashes.
    Now trying to rebuild the wifi, initially without the mesh.
    ...and no, I'm not a network engineer, so I may have used the wrong terminology, but I know everything in this house should be on 192.168.

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  • DoctorStrangelove
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    ^^^Om.

    Morning.

    Thursday.

    Dry.

    Grey.

    Hints of wan sun.

    Chilly in here at 15 deg, 13 in the kitchen, 12.5 in the leanto, 9 in the saltinghouse.

    1011 mBar, 29.85 in Hg, 758.3 Torr, 14.66 psi, (down from 1014 last night), 67% RH (Lidl electric).

    Meanwhile on the 5th of March 2020 WTFH arrived on a jet plane at Heathrow, NF was watching a Murder programme, and Brillo popped in a lot.

    Washing frenzy in progress.

    Lunch: brunch. Entertainment: the thing at 11:45: about the Norse influence on the Shetlands (rather than continuity who implied it was yesterday's epic about bog bodies).

    The items requiring the iRon came in off the line, were iRoned, and now reside upstairs airing a bit.

    The remaining items came in off the line & met the TD.

    Walk (unabbreviated, towpath) walked in the grey gloom. Met a lady who used to work for Siliconix back in the day and confirmed it was she who I thought it was.

    Everything out of the TD & airing upstairs: 3/4 of a cup of water out of the TD.

    Now getting outside a mug of mediocre but consistent coffee: entertainment: part of a thing about lichen.

    Raining.

    Tea: beans on toast with scrambled egg. Nice enough. Entertainment: PM <click>

    Classic Xmas Movies: Miracle on 34th street. Well it was on: probably would have been better off watching the Bletchley Park thing on BBC4.

    Classic Xmas Movies: something else, I forget quite what. Oh. "Love actually". Whatever that is. <click> Zero innerest in that. .

    Why are they missing out "Die Hard"?

    Freecell score in the ennui of the evening: 88%, running average: 86%.

    I'm trying to remember how Win95 loads up and tries to run stuff that's not called up in autoexec.bat or config.sys. There's some stuff in system.ini, i suppose it could come from there.

    "The man who took Sharron Matthews". Odd sort of cove: he was sectioned & in a hospital in 2022.

    Last edited by DoctorStrangelove; Today, 23:37.

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  • NickFitz
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    Morning denizens

    Rosy-fingered dawn out there today, with various wisps and strands of cloud scattered around the horizon, while a higher layer towards the zenith is so thin that the just-past-waning-gibbous moon shines through. It’s 7°C yet “feels like” 1°, with an expected high of 11°, and expected to be a bit breezy with sunny spells. The barometers are decidedly up at 1005/1013mB

    My last day of ClientGov work for the year beckons!

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  • NickFitz
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    In Mogadishu, GSG 9 stormed the hijacked airliner and rescued all the hostages with only a few minor injuries. One of the hijackers just about survived. And so the Americans, realising that they wouldn’t have been able to do that, have asked the Germans to help them set up the unit now known as Delta Force

    Goodnight all

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  • NickFitz
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    Tea has been lamb chops with the rest of the potato cakes, and beans

    This was accompanied by the rest of an episode of Traffic Cops that I started watching a few days ago

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  • NickFitz
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    Another busy day, but just one more to go - this time tomorrow, I’ll be done with ClientGov for the year!

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  • NickFitz
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    Lunch: leftover pork cutlet in a wholemeal bap. Not that different to yesterday’s lunch, but I’m a bit short of lunch stuff again

    Quite sunny out, though there seem to be a few more clumps of cloud drifting about

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  • xoggoth
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    No loony ladies today. Really nice day for a wonky. Drop by not loony lady next door before I go.

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